Politics quotes

“Rugby is a very rough game, almost as rough as politics.”

Morgan Freeman - Nelson Mandela

“the purpose of war is to serve a political end but the true nature of war is to serve itself.”
Denzel Washington - Hunter

“The idea of writing anything about Europe and Brexit filled me with an earthquake of a yawn.”
Heathcote Williams

“I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already.”
Jerry Lewis

“- Shtarker: Too bad about all the dead movie stars.
- Siegfried: Yes. What will we do without their razor-sharp political advice.”
Ken Davitian - Shtarker
Terence Stamp - Siegfried

“Political correctness is tyranny with manners.”
Charlton Hesto

“- Deputy Pell: You got no right to be here. This is a political meeting.
- Ward: Doesn't smell that way to me, Deputy.
- Deputy Pell: It's a damn political meeting, Hoover Boy.
- Ward: Oh, it looks like a political meeting, but smells more like Klan to me... with or without the Halloween costumes.”
Brad Dourif - Deputy Pell
Willem Dafoe - Ward

“He married for love. Love. That's why he did everything. That's why he went into politics. It seems we weren't enough, he wanted all the voters to love him too.”

Joseph Cotten - Jedediah Leland

“This isn't the Republicans versus the Democrats, where we're in a hole economically or... or we're in another war. This is more crucial than that. This is down to the line, folks, this is down to the line. There can be no more divisions among the living!”

Richard France - Scientist

“I’m choosing to make a film that’s fundamentally political, but not everything I do is political because I’m Black.”
John David Washington - Malcolm

“You can murder a liberator, but you can’t murder liberation. You can murder a revolutionary, but you can’t murder revolution. And you can murder a freedom fighter, but you can’t murder freedom!”
Daniel Kaluuya - Fred Hampton

“I’m going to die for the people, because I live for the people! I live for the people, because I love the people!”
Daniel Kaluuya - Fred Hampton

“Anywhere there’s people, there’s power.”
Daniel Kaluuya - Fred Hampton

“America’s on fire right now. And until that fire is extinguished, don’t nothing else mean a damn thing. Imagine what we could accomplish together. We can heal this whole city.”
Daniel Kaluuya - Fred Hampton

“This movement that we are in is called The Struggle. Because we are fighting for our lives!”
Kingsley Ben-Adir - Malcolm X

“Right now, it takes about 6 months exposure to social media for the average person to become hopelessly radicalized. ”
Laurence Fishburne - Narrator

“When we walked in this morning, they were chanting that the whole world is watching. If we leavehere without saying anything about why we came in the first place, it’ll be heartbreaking.”
Jeremy Strong - Jerry Rubin

“We want to underscore again, that we’re coming to Chicago peacefully, but whether we’re given permits or not, we’re coming.”
Eddie Redmayne - Tom Hayden

“We don’t need politicians, we’ve all got iPhones and computers, right? So any decision that has to be made, any policy, we just put it online. Let the people vote–thumbs up, thumbs down, the majority wins. That’s a democracy. That’s a–that’s an actual democracy.”
Jason Flemyng - Jack Napier

“Let me tell you how this city is run, you stupid mick. We serve the rich, and in return they raise us above the primordial filth. And God help us if we don’t keep our end of the bargain.”
Ted Levine - Chief Thomas Byrnes

“Men, good or bad, do not follow what they don’t respect.”
Ted Levine - Chief Thomas Byrnes

“- George Barley: Why doesn't the government do something, that's what I'd like to know.
- Mr. Krull: What can they do, they're only people just like us.
- George Barley: People my foot, they're democrats.”
John Brown - George Barley
Olan Soule - Mr. Krull

“Politics is about divisions. Wherever you come in on the subject, there are divisions.”
Vanessa Redgrave

“Cultural change always precedes political change.”
Tessa Thompson

“- Col. Mathieu: It's not warriors we need.
- Journalist: Then what?
- Col. Mathieu: Political will, which is sometimes there and sometimes isn't.”
Jean Martin - Col. Mathieu